Lydia Kokkola

Research Project Leadership

2019-22 C21st Literacies for C21st Sweden. SkolForsknings Institutet

2016-17 New Frontiers in Hyperspace: Using learning analytics to explore Swedish pupils’ research strategies. Centre for Effective Innovation & Organisation, Luleå.

2015-19 Matching Reading Strategies with Purposes and Text Types. Marcus and Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond.

2008-11 Silence as Voice: Reempowering the disempowered in contemporary English literatures. Academy of Finland.

2009-12 Silence and Sexuality: Reticent Responses to Adolescent Sexuality Collegium researcher in TIAS (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies) The University of Turku

Selected Publications

Monographs (Total: 3)

1. Kokkola, Lydia. 2013. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2. Kokkola, Lydia. 2003. Representations of the Holocaust in Children's Literature. New York: Routledge

Edited Volumes and Journal Issues (Total: 9)

3. Harde, Roxanne and Lydia Kokkola (eds.). 2018. The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture (Children’s Literature & Culture Series). London and New York: Routledge.
4. Harde, Roxanne and Lydia Kokkola (eds.) 2014. Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna: A Children’s Classic at 100. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.

Reviewed Articles (Total 52)

5. Kokkola, Lydia 2023 Desiring bodies: Reading the Adolescent Body. International Research in Children’s Literature. 16(1)
6. Kokkola, Lydia, and Ulla Rydström. 2022. Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English. Language and Learning. 72(1): 99-118 https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470211072171
7. Trasmundi, Sarah Bro; Lydia Kokkola, Theresa Schilhab, Anne Mangen. 2021. A Distributed Perspective on Reading: Implications for Education. Language Sciences. 84:1-15 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101367
8. Kokkola, Lydia, and Elina Siltanen. 2021. “My Hard-Earned (Sámi) Identity”: The Hard Work of Uncomfortable Reading. Scandinavian Studies 93(2): 216-240.
9. Kokkola, L., & Van Den Bossche, S. (2020). Introduction: Diversity in Nordic Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Barnboken, 43. https://doi.org/10.14811/clr.v43.525
10. Kokkola, L., & Van Den Bossche, S. (2020). Diversifying Understandings of Diversity: Possible Routes for Nordic Children’s Literature. Barnboken, 43. https://doi.org/10.14811/clr.v43.521
11. Manderstedt, Lena, Lydia Kokkola and Annbritt Palo. 2020. Rethinking Cultural Appropriation in YA Literature Through Sámi and Arctic Pedagogies. Children’s Literature in Education. Vol. 52(1): 88-105. Doi: 10.1007/s10583-020-09404-x
12. Kokkola, Lydia and Raita Merivirta. 2020. Colonialism, Finnish Exceptionalism and the Sámi in Early 1960s Youth Novels. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. 47(3):271-294.
13. Palo, Annbritt., Kokkola, Lydia., Manderstedt, Lena. (2020) Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling. International Research in Children’s Literature, 13 (2), 289-305. (https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0359)
14. Kokkola, Lydia and Sara van den Bossche. 2019. Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature: A Roadmap to Possible and Answerable Questions. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Vol. 44 Issue 4. pp. 355-363
15. Kokkola, Lydia, Annbritt Palo & Lena Manderstedt. 2019. Protest & Apology in the Arctic: Enacting Citizenship in Two Recent Swedish Films. Humanities. 8(1)49. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010049
16. Kokkola, Lydia. 2018. Hands on Reading: The Body, the Brain and the Book. In Harde, Roxanne and Lydia Kokkola (eds.). The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 191-206.
17. Kokkola, Lydia. 2018. Children’s Literature in ‘Our Language’. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 55(2): 56-60.
18. Kokkola, Lydia. 2017. Envisaging ‘Our’ Nation: Politicized Affects in Minority Language Literature. Children’s Literature in Education 47:1-18. DOI 10.1007/s10583-017-9340-8
19. Kokkola, Lydia and Elina Valovirta. 2017. The Disgust that Fascinates: Sibling Incest as a Bad Romance. Sexuality and Culture. 21(1), 121-141 Open Access.
20. Kokkola, Lydia. 2017. Critical Plant Studies and Children’s Literature. In Clémentine Beauvais and Maria Nikolajeva (Eds.). Edinburgh Companion to Children’s Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 274-280.
21. Kokkola, Lydia. 2016. Becoming Native? The Wisdom of Plants in Margaret Engle’s The Surrender Tree. International Research in Children’s Literature 9(1): 35-49.
22. Kokkola, Lydia. 2016. “Only Connect!”: Creating Connections when reading Fiction and Digital Texts. Encuentro 24:59-72 Open access: http://www.encuentrojournal.org/
23. Korkka, Janne, Lydia Kokkola and Elina Valovirta. 2016. “An autobiography in which I do not appear”: The seductive self in the poetry of Robert Kroetsch. English Studies. 97(5): 510-527.
24. Fjällström, Eva and Lydia Kokkola. 2015. Resisting focalisation, gaining empathy: Swedish Teenagers Read Irish Fiction. Children’s Literature in Education. 2015(46):394-409.
25. Kokkola, Lydia. 2014. Make Yourself At Home! Adolescents in Search of the Queer Spaces of Home. Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research. 37:1-18.
26. Valovirta, Elina, Lydia Kokkola, and Janne Korkka. 2014. "The smell of an impossible dream: Dallas, migration, and creative failure in Angie Cruz’s Let It Rain Coffee." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 49(2): 229-242.
27. Kokkola, Lydia. 2013. Reading Multilingual Literature: The Bilingual Brain and Literacy Education. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 51(3):22-35.
28. Kokkola, Lydia. 2013. Learning to Read Politically: Narratives of Hope and Narratives of Despair in Push by Sapphire. Cambridge Journal of Education. 43(3):391-405.
29. Kokkola, Lydia, Elina Valovirta and Janne Korkka 2013. “Who does what to whom and how”: ‘Knowing children’ and depictions of prostitution in Anglophone YA literature. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 38(1):66-83.
30. Aerila, Juli-Anna and Lydia Kokkola. 2013. Multicultural literature and the use of literature in multicultural education in Finland. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 51(2): 39-50.